Starz and its sister networks, Starz.com/activate Encore and MoviePlex, are headquartered in Santa Monica, California,with satellite office facilities located at the Meridian International Business Center complex in Englewood, Colorado,and at a small office located on 5th Avenue in New York City.Peacock launched nationally on July 15, 2020; as of August 2021, the service had reached at least 54 million signups.On January 25, 2022, Peacocktv.com/tv further expanded in Sky territories, soft launching in Austria and Germany.The service is also sold direct-to-consumer through a proprietary streaming service Epix.com/devices Now, and via a la carte subscriptions independent of a traditional pay television platform sold by Apple TV Channels, Amazon Video Channels and The Roku Channel.Showtime anytime/activate was launched on July 1, 1976, on Times-Mirror Cable systems in Escondido, Long Beach and Palos Verdes, California through the conversion of 10,000 subscribers of the previous Channel One franchise.Disneyplus.com/Begin was launched on November 12, 2019, in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, and expanded to Australia, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico a week later.